Sound advice. (unless you are using finalcut, imovie, bridge, or lightroom).
Also, use the default 2G RAM for a while before you upgrade the RAM. 2G has been sufficient for me, but I haven't done any real editing in FinalCut. best...jf On Jan 26, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 26, at 11:38 AM, Nora J. Probasco wrote: > >> In the Macbook Pro I am looking at the 2 processor speeds, 2.2 ghz >> and 2.4 ghz. The difference in cost is $500. Now that also includes >> a 160g vs a 120g hard drive. I do not need the extra size of hard >> drive. I plan to increase the RAM to 4g. Shouldn’t that also make >> it run faster? I do not run a lot of graphics intensive programs >> but have a genealogy program that was dragging on my old Macbook. > > The difference in speed is less than 10%. You won't notice that. I > think the only major difference between the machines is the built-in > graphics processor. They both have the same GeForce 8600M graphics > chip, but the 2.4 GHz machine has 256 MB of graphics cache and the > 2.2 MHz machine has "only" 128 MB. Unless you're doing some heavy > video, the smaller cache will not be needed. > > I don't think the 2.4 GHz machine is worth $500 more. Spend some of > the saved money on Applecare, more RAM and a good bag. (Shop around > for RAM. Apple's RAM markups are usually ridiculous.) _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be February 26 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
